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Midway ISD board sets timeline and application rules to fill trustee vacancy; applications to be posted online
Summary
Board members agreed to post an online application for a trustee appointment, accept a resume or personal biography, require 3–5 references, ask three short application questions and set a tentative submission deadline of Nov. 7; the appointed trustee would serve until the next election and must file to run in the spring.
Midway ISD trustees discussed and gave administration direction on a process to appoint a replacement trustee for a pending board vacancy, instructing staff to post an application on the district website and outlining submission requirements and a timeline.
The board asked administration to publish an online application that will: - Accept a resume or a short biography that can include relevant professional or community experience (applicants need not provide a traditional corporate résumé), - Request between three and five references (the board suggested a mix of professional and personal references), - Include three short written questions as a screening step (board members indicated they preferred question items 1, 3 and 4 from a circulated question set), and - Limit answers to a maximum of 500 words per question.
Trustees asked that the application be live promptly; administration said it would prepare a draft for trustee review and targeted publication by the end of the week, with a suggested application deadline of Friday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. Administration said it would circulate applicant materials to board members as they arrived.
The board asked staff to make the process transparent and to direct any support letters or unsolicited correspondence to the district office rather than to individual trustees. Trustees discussed that any appointed trustee would serve through the current term and would be required to run in the next election cycle (the board reiterated that an appointee would need to file for the spring election to continue serving beyond the appointed period).
Board members also discussed interview logistics; trustees agreed to review applications and then choose a small set of finalists (three to five was suggested) for interviews. Several trustees emphasized the importance of consistent interview questions and noted that interviews must be conducted in properly noticed board meetings per open‑meetings law.
Administration said it would post the application as directed, circulate a draft to trustees for review before publishing, and schedule any required special‑call meetings to select finalists and to make a final appointment in time for the December board meeting, at which the appointee could be sworn in.
